Seismic tremor hits Huíla province

Lubango - A seismic tremor whose magnitude is still to be established slightly shook the southern Huila province’s municipalities of Lubango (capital), Caluquembe and Chicomba at 068:34 pm on Tuesday, without damages.

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The Lubango city centre

Photo: Morais Silva

The tremor was mainly felt by buildings dwellers who reported the shaking of infrastructure and edifices. Many are reported to have fled their apartments.

Southern Huíla province has no equipment to measure the magnitude of earthquakes, the last of which occurred in April 2013 in the locality of Chicomba, some 220 kilometres north of Lubango, having left cracks on buildings. The Chicomba one followed that of 2011 in Quipungo, some 120 kilometres of the province’s capital city. No casualties were reported in either case.

Matala - Animals such as black buffalo, elephant, leopard and wild boar are some of the rare species of fauna considered privileged and cataloged by the Forest Development Institute (IDF), in the Bicuar National Park, southern Huíla province, preventing them from being extinguished.

Matala - National and foreign scholars have been told to promote scientific studies on the flora and fauna at natural reserve of Bicuar Park based in Matala Municipality, southern Huila province, aimed at discovery of new species.